Fashion retailer Brooks Brothers has cut its ties with a wool supplier
which sources wool from the Bradford-based Standard Wool company following
an expose uncovering horrific cases of animal cruelty at sheep farms in
Chile.
Workers at two Chilean sheep farms which supply Standard Wool Ltd, a group
of companies which purchases 60 percent of the entire wool output from the
country, have been caught on film by PETA US cutting lambs tails off,
kicking sheep, driving knives into the necks of sheep as a means of
slaughter and skinning sheep alive.
“When suppliers to one of the world’s leading wool-trading businesses are
caught mutilating, beating and bleeding out sheep, it’s clear that cruelty
is the norm in this despicable industry”, commented PETA Director Mimi
Bekhechi. “PETA is calling on shoppers to take a stand for sheep around the
world by refusing to wear any wool.”
After being in contact with PETA US, clothing label Brooks Brothers made
the decision to end its relationship with a wool suppliers associated with
the sheep farms in question. “Brooks Brothers did in fact confirm that they
have no current orders, or intention of placing future orders, for products
made by a company that sources wool from Standard Wool,” confirmed a PETA
spokesperson to FashionUnited.
The expose is not the first of its kind to come to light, as in less than
two years PETA has released six exposes recorded at 39 sheep facilities on
three continents, all of which feature all too similar accounts of animal
abuse, cruelty and mutilation in the pursuit of the sheep wool and meat.
Photo: Courtesy of PETA US